Hand Held Viewer

[trystan]

Pauline,

I think microfiche is around 6"x4", with a single page unit about the size of half a British postage stamp - but I'm not sure!

Trystan

[PaulineJ]

I'm certain that microfiche is postcard-sized; I just couldn't visualise how many images were on it. I'll be really chuffed if this idea works! Save the expense of a viewer or library trips.

Pauline

[Chris in 1066Land]

Hi there

Standard Microfiche are a bit smaller than 6 x 4 and they usually contain 98 frames of data - each frame being shrunk down to half an inch by quarter of an inch.
Each frame is an A4 page of text/images/etc.
I think you will find the images are to small for your scanner (i tried it without success a long time ago)
But who knows, technology has advanced since then.

Chris in 1066Land.

[jaq]

Incidentally I also bought my viewer from MBI - Trevor Parker, and received a very quick and helpful service - only trouble is I haven't used the viewer yet!

Is MBI a website? if so, can you let me know the url please.
many thanks
jaq

[PaulineJ]

We managed to get a reasonable scan of full-page text, and of line drawings (Parish Maps as it happens). Unfortunately, it wouldn't work on the columns of data in the name indexes. Came out like n-th generation photocopies (n>10).

Back to the library.

Pauline

[jaq]

hi pauline,
re:We happen to have a photo-quality scanner (so we can scan our old negatives).

we thought we could have a look tho our old photo negs thro the viewer but the magnification is soooo big,i suppose its possible to remove the magnifying part of the reader?
jaq